Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

Black love is black wealth

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.